Johann Zarco

Johann Zarco is one of those riders who made you sit up and pay attention the moment he arrived on the world stage. Back-to-back Moto2 World Championships in 2015 and 2016 — with that 2015 points total setting an outright record for the intermediate class — told you everything you needed to know: this guy from Cannes is the real deal, not just a flash of talent. His MotoGP journey has been a rougher ride, full of team switches and the kind of adversity that would have broken a lot of riders, but Zarco keeps showing up, keeps hunting for that first premier-class win, and keeps pulling off the kind of qualifying laps that remind you why he was so hyped in the first place. There's a grit to him I genuinely respect.

Name (English)

Johann Zarco

Name (Japanese)

ヨハン・ザルコ

Reading

よはん・ざるこ

Born

July 16, 1990 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

Origin

Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Occupation

motorcycle racer

• Official sitehttps://www.johannzarco.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/johannzarco/
• Xhttps://x.com/johannzarco1
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Zarco
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221180

Tags

• Alpes-Maritimes
• motorcycle racer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.